Former PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, has explained how he offended President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to Metuh who testified before the Federal High Court in Abuja, President Buhari wants him jailed.
Metuh is currently facing a seven-count charge leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Metuh said, “The then National Chairman of the APC, Oyegun, publicly warned me that the APC was not happy with me and is not taking my criticisms lightly.
“Also, when President Buhari wants to engage in undemocratic practice, I will resist such by taking press men to houses of Nigerians who were unlawfully held hostage in their houses, to conduct live press conferences, and this put an immediate stop to excesses of the DSS and other security agencies.
“He informed Nigerians that his government can arrest and detain Nigerians at will, I immediately countered that he was becoming an unrepentant tyrant.
“This provoked another round of warning and threats and the then APC chairman oyegun came out again to warn that the government will no longer take it kindly with Olisa Metuh as PDP spokesman.
“The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, at the burial ceremony of the mother of the governor of ebonyi state, in the presence of the government delegation he led, including the Minister of Labour and then members of the National working committee of the PDP, and some other elders of the party from the South East, warned me personally that this government has decided to teach me a lesson.
“He stated to the hearing of everybody that this government will use me to set an example of how they can destroy the careers, finances and lives of Nigerians that attempt to put a clog in the wheel of their administrative tenure.
“This was the period I had just come out from Kuje prison. Upon my being introduced by the labour Minister Ngige who told Babachir, ‘I hope you know this person, Olisa Metuh’.
“My lord, with the greatest sense of responsibility, Babchir said, you are a very lucky man, we did not want you to come out of Kuje, to my shock and amazement, he stated publicly to me that this government will jail me.”